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Friends With Benefits: The India-US Story by Seema Sirohi
RRP: £21.50£12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356295902Author Seema SirohiFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 220mm... -
Muslim: What You Need To Know About The World's Fastest Growing Religion by Hank Hanegraaff 9780785216025
£16.49Is Islam a peaceful and tolerant religion? For all the debate over Islam and its growing presence in the world, one thing is often overlooked: Islam is not a religion in the sanitized Western sense. It is, in contrast, an all-encompassing sociopolitical... -
Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America by David McCormick
RRP: £25.00£16.38It's easy to be pessimistic about the state of our country these days, but as McCormick explains, if the true test of a great country is its capacity for self-renewal, the United States of America stands apart. Our country has continually defeated grave... -
Beyond Iraq: The Future Of World Order by Amitav Acharya 9789814324809
RRP: £65.00£56.12How does the Iraq War affect the future world order? What kinds of problems has this war brought about, and what is needed to remedy these problems, so as to reconstruct an order in Iraq and beyond? The present volume is a collection of essays exploring... -
United States Relations with South Africa: A Critical Overview from the Colonial Period to the Present by Y. G. M. Lulat 9780820479064
RRP: £40.90£33.90Relations between the United States and South Africa - or the parts of the world these nations now occupy - go nearly as far back as the very beginning of their inception as permanent European colonial intrusions. This book is a critical overview of... -
Understanding Policy Fiascoes Paul 't Hart 9780765804518
RRP: £45.99£40.44A crisis of governance is widespread in western societies. Public administration is caught in a web of personal and organizational inter-dependencies that require continuous awareness and readjustment on the part of its practitioners. Understanding... -
High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia by Will Doig 9780997722987
£11.25The story of the world's most audacious infrastructure project Less than a decade ago, China did not have a single high-speed train in service. Today, it owns a network of 14,000 miles of high-speed rail, far more than the rest of the world combined... -
The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class and Political Culture Dorinda Outram 9781032126494
RRP: £28.99£25.09This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event. It was not simply a series of events with worldwide repercussions, but also represented the foundation of... -
Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State by Farah Godrej
RRP: £17.99£15.52An estimated forty million people in the United States regularly practice yoga, and as an industry it generates over nine billion dollars annually. A major reason for its popularity is its promise of mental and physical well-being: yoga and meditation... -
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations by Suzan Shown Harjo
RRP: £35.00£27.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588344786Author Suzan Shown HarjoFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
National Security Intelligence by Loch K. Johnson
£23.92National security intelligence is a vast, complex, and important topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of secrecy that surround it. In the second edition of his definitive introduction to the field, leading... -
The Problem-solving Capacity of the Modern State: Governance Challenges and Administrative Capacities by Martin Lodge 9780198716365
RRP: £110.00£99.81The early 21st century has presented considerable challenges to the problem-solving capacity of the contemporary state in the industrialised world. Among the many uncertainties, anxieties and tensions, it is, however, the cumulative challenge of fiscal... -
The Politics of Global Supply Chains Kate MacDonald (University of Melbourne) 9780745661711
RRP: £17.99£16.04The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and distribution within contemporary global supply chains. Drawing on over 300 interviews with farmers, workers, activists, businesses and government officials in garment and... -
The Politics of Crime Control by Kevin Stenson
RRP: £60.00£52.30What is meant by crime, crime prevention and crime control? Who defines the acts which are deemed as criminal? Who devises the sanctions and who acts as agents of social control? This timely and challenging book brings together a group of leading... -
When Kids Rule the School: The Power and Promise of Democratic Education by Jim Rietmulder
RRP: £14.99£13.83How self-directed democratic schooling builds fulfilling lives and can lead the way back to a civilized society Education is ripe for democratic disruption. Students in most schools are denied fundamental social ideals such as personal freedom, public... -
Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order by Rajan Menon
RRP: £19.99£14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536295Author Rajan MenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 17mm -
Modern Housing by Catherine Bauer
RRP: £27.99£24.54The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement Originally published in 1934, Modern Housing is widely acknowledged as one of the most important books on housing of the twentieth century,... -
Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice by Nicholas A. Robins
RRP: £19.99£17.54In the last two decades, the field of comparative genocide studies has produced an increasingly rich literature on the targeting of various groups for extermination and other atrocities, throughout history and around the contemporary world. However, the... -
Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation by Hagen Koo
RRP: £25.99£22.84Forty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its... -
The Truth of the Russian Revolution: The Memoirs of the Tsar's Chief of Security and His Wife by Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev 9781438464626
RRP: £24.78£22.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438464626Author Konstantin Ivanovich GlobachevFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New... -
Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific: Heritage and Contemporary Challenges Howard M. Hensel 9781032096063
RRP: £39.99£35.06Scholars and policy makers have traditionally viewed portions of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific as separate and discrete political, economic, and military regions. In recent years, however, a variety of economic, political, and military forces... -
Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham 9780231125734
RRP: £30.00£23.29Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering important and surprising answers to a series of pressing questions. Under what conditions... -
Direct Action In Montevideo by Fernando O'Neill Cuesta
RRP: £19.00£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353649Author Fernando O'Neill CuestaFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State by Charles R. Epp
RRP: £28.00£27.39It's a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers. Charles R. Epp argues, however, that few Americans would want to return... -
Renewable Energy: Physics, Engineering, Environmental Impacts, Economics and Planning by Bent Sorensen 9780128045671
RRP: £96.00£87.56Bent Sorensen's Renewable Energy: Physics, Engineering, Environmental Impacts, Economics and Planning, Fifth Edition, continues the tradition by providing a thorough and current overview of the entire renewable energy sphere. Since its first edition,... -
What Unites Us by Dan Rather
RRP: £11.99£9.90AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." -Dan Rather"A tonic for our times . . . Rather's writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new generation. In these essays,... -
European Nations: Explaining Their Formation by Miroslav Hroch
£24.40In the history of modern political thought, no other topic has attracted as much attention as nationalism, nation formation, and patriotism. Because of the ever-growing body of literature tackling these vexed issues, level-headed clarification has been... -
Media Democracy: How the Media Colonize Politics Thomas Meyer (Universitat Dortmund) 9780745628448
RRP: £16.99£15.22In his controversial new book, Thomas Meyer argues that the media are transforming traditional party democracy into 'media democracy'. Political elites submit to the mass media's formulas in the hope of salvaging some influence over their public images... -
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics by Leon Wieseltier 9781735718798
RRP: £13.99£13.45Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. In this issue of Liberties: Michael Ignatieff - The Mind's Emancipation; Mary Gaitskill - The Trials of the Young;... -
The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern' by Vartan Matiossian
£22.36Winner of The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research 2023 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies. This book explores the genealogy of the concept of 'Medz Yeghern' ('Great Crime'), the Armenian term for the... -
Revolutionary Iran: Challenge and Response in the Middle East by R. K. Ramazani
£26.93The policies and actions of revolutionary Iran continue to reverberate throughout the world. Now with a new epilogue on the Iranian-American arms deal. "Revolutionary Iran" is the most incisive account to date of the Khomeini regime's foreign policy and... -
Slavoj Zizek and Radical Politics Sean Homer (American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria) 9781138643581
RRP: £43.99£38.44In this book, Sean Homer addresses Slavoj Zizek's work in a specific political conjuncture, his political interventions in the Balkans. The charge of inconsistency and contradiction is frequently levelled at Zizek's politics, a charge he openly embraces... -
The Politics of Global Regulation by Walter Mattli 9780691139616
RRP: £30.00£23.66Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can... -
The Transparent Traveler: The Performance and Culture of Airport Security by Rachel Hall
RRP: £20.99£18.66At the airport we line up, remove our shoes, empty our pockets, and hold still for three seconds in the body scanner. Deemed safe, we put ourselves back together and are free to buy the beverage we were prohibited from taking through security. In The... -
Bug Club Phonics - Phase 2 Unit 3: It is a ...? Dominique Simpson 9781292407845
£5.87In this non-fiction phonics book, which is aligned to Letters & Sounds Phase 2 and Bug Club Phonics Unit 3, readers can have fun guessing what they are looking at. Tricky words to This book aligns with Letters and Sounds Phase 2... -
Political Fictions Jean-Paul Sartre 9780857429070
RRP: £9.99£8.82A collection of pieces on politically engaged fiction of Sartre's day, including works by Andre Gorz and Paul Nizan. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the... -
Making Light Work: An End to Toil in the Twenty-First Century David A. Spencer 9781509548620
RRP: £50.00£43.17Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisure? In this book David A. Spencer argues that work is only an alienating burden because of the nature of... -
Xenocracy: State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864 by Sakis Gekas 9781805391272
RRP: £31.95£26.40Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate... -
Enough for All Forever: A Handbook for Learning about Sustainability by Joy Murray 9781612290140
RRP: £47.00£34.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612290140Author Joy MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Common Ground PublishingPublisher Common Ground PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Global Social Policy in the Making: The Foundations of the Social Protection Floor Bob Deacon (Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield) 9781447312345
RRP: £29.99£23.38The global economic crisis continue to dominate headlines, yet measures to build a social floor under the global economy and reform global governance have received little attention. In 2012 the Social Protection Floor was adopted as a global social...